I applied to basically all the software engineer intern positions at video game companies in the USA. I would say EA gave me the best experience.

At the start, I applied for a very general software engineer internship position online. The description was very general and did not mention that the internship would involve gameplay programming, AI, etc. When I received the interview from EA, they actually put me into a rendering position intern. I was super surprised they actually gave me the interview based on my resume information. My resume focused on real-time rendering, so that was a plus.

I did not receive any code assessment for this one; I directly got the first and also the final interview. I interviewed with a senior software engineer and a project manager from the Frostbite team in Orlando. They were super welcoming and professional. We basically just went through each school project on my resume: one was my tech art project (I focused on the performance debugging part of it), one was a C++ project (not using a game engine; I just wanted to let them know I could code C++), and one was a WebGL project (which I made in my computer graphics class).

At the end, they gave me some really basic C++ problems. I don't think I answered them perfectly. They also asked if I had any questions for them. I asked some questions about Frostbite, then that was about it.

What is a visual function in C++?

What does the compiler do when it's compiling a visual function?

(This is the one I don't know.)

Resume questions, very detailed:

• What kind of tools do you use?
• What is the data structure of the project?
• How do you discover performance problems?
• If you mention anything, make sure you have a story for it.